‘Game of Thrones’ season 7: Co-creator on tying together ‘cohesive’ story by end of season 8

There are at the moment supposedly thirteen episodes left of “Game of Thrones,” and if the current (unconfirmed) plan holds, it appears as though these installments will be split up across two different seasons to get us to the proper end goal. Would HBO welcome more installments than this? Probably, but the reality here is that the showrunners don’t really have any intention of bloating this franchise out any further than where it needs to be.

Speaking on this subject in a new interview with Deadline, show co-creator David Benioff made it clear that there is a plan in place for the series’ end, and it is one that they seem to want to stick to:

“We’re trying to tell one cohesive story with a beginning, middle and end… We’ve known the end for quite some time and we’re hurtling towards it. Those last images from [Sunday’s finale] showed that. Daenerys is finally coming back to Westeros, Jon Snow is king of the North, and Cersei is sitting on the Iron Throne. And we know the Night King is up there, waiting for all of them. The pieces are on the board now… and we are heading toward the end game.”

So what is this endgame? Since the show set up the White Walkers as the true threat all the way back in the opening of the pilot, we think the final episodes will be more about them, the quiet threat no one other than those in the north were ready to believe was anything dangerous. We’ll just have to wait and see if that proves to be true, and if Westeros is stabilized before such a fight can truly happen.

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